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Pierre-Simon Laplace

1749 - 1827

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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799–1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. Laplace also popularized and further confirmed Sir Isaac Newton's work. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Simon Laplace is the 21st most popular mathematician (down from 16th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from France (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Mathematician.

Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who is most famous for his work on probability theory and the nebular hypothesis.

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Among mathematicians, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 21 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Biruni, Pierre de Fermat, Bertrand Russell, Jacob Bernoulli, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Henri Poincaré. After him are David Hilbert, Joseph Fourier, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Évariste Galois, Hero of Alexandria, and John von Neumann.

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Among people born in 1749, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 2. Before him is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. After him are Edward Jenner, Nicolas Appert, Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Domenico Cimarosa, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Yolande de Polastron, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Among people deceased in 1827, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 3. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, and Alessandro Volta. After him are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, William Blake, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Maria Theresa of Austria, Wilhelm Hauff, Ugo Foscolo, Samuel Crompton, and Wilhelm Müller.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 114 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope Clement VI (1291), Madame de Pompadour (1721), Henri Poincaré (1854), Pope John XXII (1244), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), and Marquis de Sade (1740). After him are Pope Innocent VI (1282), Anatole France (1844), François Mitterrand (1916), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), André Gide (1869), and Nicolas Poussin (1594).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre-Simon Laplace ranks 5. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), and Henri Poincaré (1854). After him are Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), and Abraham de Moivre (1667).

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